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Vol. 25, Issue 28

BLACK VOTES MATTER

HERMAN CAIN DIES

I’M BAAACK JIM CROW

HOUSTON -- Racism is not “child’s play,” and President Donald Trump -- no matter how juvenile he acts -- is nothing to play with, nor is this election. But before we let you go about the business of your day (some blind to what is happening right before your eyes) we

must take you through a walk in time to show you how ignorance of the past dooms you to ALLOW others to SNEAK a REPEAT on you.

Indulge us for a moment -- and educate yourself -- then run for your lives to the polls this November and do the right thing.

-----------------------------------“This is a country for white men, and

by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men,” Andrew Johnson said after becoming the 17th president following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

Even though Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in Confederate states on Jan. 1, 1863, and even though Congress ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, nothing really changed in the South.

The Black Code cont’d on page 4

WASHINGTON Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and co-chair of ‘Black Voices for Trump,’ has died at age 74 due to complications from COVID-19. Cain’s death is a grim reminder that African Americans, regardless of social or financial status, are dying at a disproportionately higher rate than other races.

Cain’s official Twitter account released news Thursday morning of the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO’s death.

“You’re never ready for the kind of news we are grappling with this morning. But we have no choice but to seek and find God’s strength and comfort to deal,” the tweet said.

Cain attended President Donald Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He, like many others in

the crowd, was not wearing a mask, nor practicing social distancing. He was hospitalized in early July, but his team did not confirm how or where he was exposed.

At least eight Trump advance team staffers who were also in attendance tested positive for coronavirus afterward.

In May 2011, Cain announced his 2012 presidential candidacy. By the fall, his proposed 9–9–9 tax plan and debating performances had made him a serious contender for the Republican nomination.

In November, however, his campaign faced allegations of sexual misconduct — all denied by Cain — and he announced its suspension on December 3.

He is survived by his wife, Gloria, and their two children, Melanie and Vincent, and grandchildren.

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EDITORIAL

President/Chief Editor

Tristar

Griselda Ramirez: Production

A Revival of God

Consciousness Bobby E. Mills, PhD

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Forewarned: Foretold We are witnessing the full-blown, vulgar militarization of policing in Urban America. Therefore, if you see box-cattlecars on sidetracks in urban communities imitate Paul Revere’s admonition, because Trump’s Urban War is full-blown: forewarned: foretold. The election of Trump in 2016 was proofpositive that everything in America is South - south of the South Pole. Shame on Christian Right Evangelicals because they cannot be trusted, they say Lord, Lord and vote, and run with the devil.

COVID-19 is proofpositive that Trump is not a crisis-leadermanager; but a chaos-conflict-creator, and four bankruptcies are money management indicators that he is not a successful businessman.

Trump cannot lead,

and he will not follow! In order to be an effective crisis manager, an individual must be able to first follow in order to be a good leader. Leadership is about loving and serving God and people. Trump has created an ungodly self-serving culture of lies; which can only lead to death, destruction and sorrow.

The moral pathway to just-fair police enforcement is positive socio-economic reforms, not militarization of policing. The only way law enforcement (Justice-System) can meaningfully change is that individuals of like-minds believe in the spiritual-moralprinciple of Justice for all. Justice is a spiritual-moralconcept, because: “For there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3: 22-23). Those who morally-legally-discipline others are the controllers of social behavior. Morality cannot be legislated, but laws can/must be equally enforced.

Law Enforcement Constabularies were designed to protect White male property

right privileges, not the human rights of minorities. Trump’s attempt to militarize policing in Urban Cities is a “tunnelvision” approach designed to be a “getout-of-jail-free-card” to avoid State/Federal prosecution. President Lincoln said it best: “You can fool all the people some of the time, And some of the people all the, time, but you cannot fool all the people, all the time.”

Trump’s attempt to militarize policing in America is a dictatorial-despotic-overreaction to fear of losing the 2020 Presidential-Election. The election of Trump in 2016 accelerated the decline of the GOP into a blue-collar cult of non-college educated white privilege oriented whites.

Democracy is for an intelligent citizenry.

The 2020 Presidential election is absolutely consequential in relationship to America’s survival.

America’s “IDEAL” has never been America’s reality.

Trump has created a nightmare, and is leading America to a dangerous spiritual-moral-crossroads Foretold cont’d on page 3

Partin’ the Waters

By Omowale Luthuli-Allen

Wear the damn mask!

There is a reason that God put our heads on top.

The biggest problem that we have with COVID -19 is that it can be transmitted asymptomatically by people. You don’t know who has it. You don’t know if you have it or not. When you’re out and about and around people, you need to wear a mask, so you don’t unwittingly spread it to somebody else.

My advice is the same thing Batman told John Blake in The Dark Knight, “the mask Is not for you, it’s to protect the people you care about.”

Unthinkable and unacceptable is the news that Junior and Sis have returned to their grandparents’ home and infected them with the virus. And now you have cases of multiple deaths in the same family group.

Food for thought,

should a grandparent or a parent emancipate a teenager that rebels against wearing a mask in public gatherings and in the house? Agreed, it is coldblooded to give a child the boot but it’s also sinister to push back against the best public health recommendations.

Child, do you know that you can kill us.

Coughing, sneezing and spitting are the virus blasts that are the main driver of the spread of the pandemic. The virus is airborne.

Crazy that we are supposedly in the world’s most advanced country and we are leading the world in infections. We are 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the infections.

Crazy that we don’t have a national mandate to wear masks. Crazy that we don’t have a centralized policy for PPE and point of care institutions.

Crazy that we don’t want to protect doctors and nurses. What do we do when the frontline health care workers are pushing up daisies (DEAD)?

We must recognize that this beast can be brought under conMask cont’d on page 3

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EDITORIAL Foretold, cont’d by vulgarly-politically corrupting the checks-balancesgovernmental-tenets, and by execrating institutional structural inequalities in the system: DemocraticInstitutions. Timehonored democratic principles/traditions mean absolutely nothing to Trump.

Consequently, the Trump Administration instituted a vul-

Mask, cont’d

trol by the scientists and healthcare professionals alone. We are going to need the hip hoppers, religious people-atheists and agnostics, parents, teachers and students, bus drivers and passengers, clerks and food service workers, law enforcement and those who are locked down in jails-innocent and guilty.

Denial and ignorance will not reverse this monster. Maintaining that this is a hoax will aggravate the problem. A seat belt will not stop you and your passengers from being killed but it will offer than much better chances of surviving and accident.

Did government vio-

gar form of socialism for corporationsbusinesses and the rich-powerful; not fairness for workingclass-families.

Policing problems are only symptomatic of the larger socio-economic-st r uc tura lproblems of institutional racism/sexism.

Genesis is the beginning.

Revelation is the end. We are caught in the in-between, halted between right and

wrong. The question is: what is God spiritually up to and what is God seeking to get Americans to morally understand, because life is a swift transition?

Therefore, remember: “So then every one of us shall give in account of himself to God.” (Romans 14:12). On November 3rd vote your conscience, but make sure it refers to a God-conscience!

lated your vaunted and cherished freedom when they mandated buckle up?

Vaccines are mandated to prevent mass sickness and death.

Your child can’t enter school and infect the other kids if he or she is positive with a dreaded illness like measles, mumps or diphtheria. You can’t work if you have tuberculosis, once a dreaded disease. Ask the dead Presidents.

James Monroe and Andrew Jackson died of TB. Smallpox almost took Abraham Lincoln out. President Franklin Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) had incurable polio.

During the so-called Revolutionary War, George Washington faced a deadlier force than the hated red-

coats- a smallpox epidemic.

I had to insert this vaccine admonition because of the flurry of cynics and QAnon zealots that are already prejudging vaccines. The vaccine will have a few adverse effects for a tiny group of people, but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for hundreds of millions.

The mask is to protect others, not you.

When I wear my mask, I protect your mama, daddy and grandmother.

For those of you who refuse to wear masks, THERE IS A REASON THAT GOD PUT YOUR HEAD ON TOP. YOU JUST DON” T KNOW IT. WE LOVE YOU MADLY….

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Just as there were cyclical CHANGES IN PRESIDENTS, there were hardfought CHANGES IN LAWS, yet CONTINUED MANIPULATION of the Southern negroes who were REMOVED FROM CHAINS, but REMAINED IN BONDAGE. THE BLACK CODES During the Reconstruction era, moderate Republicans had hoped to provide protection for negroes in the South, but no protection was granted. PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS A KNOWN WHITE SUPREMACIST. In March 1866, both houses of Congress passed a landmark Civil Rights Bill that protected the rights of American citizens without regard to race, but Johnson vetoed the bill. Johnson was thought of as stubborn, self-righteous, rigid and considered the “worst person to become president accidentally.” DOES THIS DESCRIPTION REMIND YOU OF ANYONE???

The Republican Party overrode Johnson’s veto and America has its first Civil Rights Act, but that was not enough.

Changes were needed for the constitution.

The ratification of the 14th Amendment made negroes full

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citizens of the United States. But again, they still weren’t “free” in the true sense of the word.

The Southern legal system became an instrument of intimidation.

Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida and Texas passed laws that prohibited freed men from any work except as field hands.

The laws were called “Black Codes,” which were essentially slavery without the chains, and a travesty of the freedom that the negroes had acquired.

Black Codes made it illegal for negroes to buy firearms, purchase liquor and restricted them from buying or renting land. Negro children could be seized from poor families and forced to work in the fields. If a negro man had no job, he could be jailed and auctioned to a planter for his labor. Negroes could not engage in any trade or business other than farm work.

The land “promised” to the freedmen was returned to white Rebels, and landowners even refused to pay negroes money they were owed for work. This manipulation sentenced negroes to a landless existence for generations to come.

JIM CROW LAWS Newly freed slaves

wanted LAND and tools to work the land, knowing without their own property, there would be no true freedom.

They wanted to build their

own schools and communities.

In addition, they wanted the right to vote!

The 14th and 15th Amendments guaranteed Blacks the right to vote and due process of law, however many whites chose not to acknowledge the new laws. Some whites felt they would always be superior, and negroes needed to know their places.

Whites, who were really in FEAR OF THE NEGRO, were hell bent on suppressing negroes by beatings, lynchings and murder. Nathan Bedford Forest, the first Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, led many of these acts of terror.

Some negroes remained fearless and because of their quiet “stubbornness” to be

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defeated, the highest courts in the land had to pay attention - either good or bad.

Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, a French-speaking Creole negro man named Homer Plessy sat in a “whites only” railroad car in Louisiana and refused to get up. His arrest and conviction led to the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court battle, but things did not turn out as one would expect -- RACISM was still in play.

The court decided that the railroad company did not violate the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and the “Separate but Equal Doctrine” came to be.

The doctrine stated that as long as there were equal facilities, it

was OK to separate the races. This slap in the face just allowed the South to continue dehumanizing negroes with the Jim Crow Laws, which made us second class citizens.

Jim Crow separated citizens on the street cars, in bathrooms, restaurants, etc., and negros were not allowed to use water fountains or anything else whites could think of.

Jim Crow Laws were also used to disenfranchise negroes, using specific tactics to deny them the right to vote. One in particular was implementing a poll tax, which many negroes could not afford. Another was a White Primary,

in which you had to be a white person to vote. And finally, a literacy test, which many negroes could not pass because they had been prohibited from learning how to read and write during slavery.

You see, Jim Crow Laws were a “legal loophole” backed by the Supreme Court which infringed upon our rights, but no matter what, Blacks continued to fight.

The revolution was led by young negro leaders.

The needle began to move more when President Harry S. Truman got involved.

“The extension of civil rights today The Black Code cont’d on page 6

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Truman began to meet with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and take its issues seriously.

Truman supported negros, even though he was cautioned it could hurt his chance for re-election. He was victorious, however, and his win signaled that the ideals of the American people were shifting.

In a move for equality, Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which racially integrated the military.

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